Horse Head (The)

A capital messuage or tenement so called in Thames Street given to St. Dunstan's Church (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 47).

Not identified.

Horse Mill (The)

Tenement called "le Horsmylle" in Graschirchstrete in parish of St. Peter upon Cornhulle granted to Henry Frowyk the Mayor, in view of the public granary proposed to be erected by Simon Eyre at Ledenhalle, 1444-5 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p. 313).

Stow says it was given to St. Peter's Cornhill in the 13th century (S. 196), and was given for the enlarging of Leadenhall, 1444 (S. 155).

In the Endowed Charities Report (1902), relating to St. Dunstan in the East, it is stated that this tenement was granted to the parson and churchwardens of St. Dunstan's by Wm. Barrett in 1408 and by them to the Mayor and Aldermen in 1444 (p. 2), in exchange for which the parish received an annuity of £4.

Horse Shoe (The)

On the north side of Great Eastcheap at Nos. 20-22, near the Boar's Head (q.v.), in the parish of St. Clement Eastcheap, 1556 (Indenture 1620 quoted in End. Ch. Rep. 1903. St. Clement's parish, p. 2).

Horse Shoe (The)

Horse Shoe Court

North out of Ludgate Hill, in Farringdon Ward Without, west of Old Bailey (Bacon, 1912).

First mention : Horwood, 1799.

Former name : "Sword and Buckler Court" (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).

Rebuilt for business purposes.

Horse Yard

See Evans' Court, Basinghall Street.

Horsehead (The)

Tenements called "Horshed" and "Sarazineshed" in parish of St. Vedast in the Ward of Farndone, 1356 (Cal. L. Bk. G. p. 67).

Not further identified.

Horsehead Alley

In parish of St. Sepulchre, adjoining the inn called the signe of the "Sarazen's head," over the messuage called the "horsehed."

First mention : 1557 (Ct. H.W. II. 664).

In a deed of 1669 the Horsehead is described as newly erected next the street on the west side of St. Sepulchre's church, and Horsehead Alley under it and the next adjoining tenement, the Alley extending from north to south 184 ft., and in breadth at the north end 34 ft. and at the south end 38 ft. (L.C.C. Deeds, Harben Bequest, 1600-1700, No. 109).

The site is now occupied by Holborn Viaduct and the approaches.

Horsehoe Court

South out of Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).

The site is now covered by the Smithfield Meat Market.

Horsepoole

On the north-west side of Smithfield, at the eastern end of the "Pennes" (O. and M. 1677), north of Cow Lane.

Smithfield pond, of olde time in Records called Horsepoole, for that men watered horses there, and was a great water (S. 382).

Earliest mention : "le Horsepol," 1341 (Ct. H.W. I. 450).

Filled up since the Fire of London, 1666.

Horseshoe (The)

A brewery called "le Horssho" in parish of St. Alban de Wodestrete, 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 567). In Cripplegate Ward Within.